Books: Lost Tribe

A fruitfull countrey, inhabited with pasturing people, which dwell in
the Summer season upon mountains, and in Winter they remoove into
the valleyes . . . in carravans . . . of people and cattell, carrying all their wives, children and
baggage. . .

This Elizabethan description of nomadic Persians (from Hakluyt's
Principal Voyages) would have been accurate in the time of Herodotus
(circa 484-425 B.C.) and was still accurate in A.D. 1926, when Persia's
modern-minded Reza Shah Pahlavi began his reign, set about freeing the
women...